A half hour pilot about a twelve year-old autistic cartoonist and his superhero best friend Nature Man.
July 24, August 14, and September 18 at 3:00 PM
Make the Movie that You Want to See
A night of new works by members of the Dominican Artists Collective.
A high school senior discouraged by college applications explores alternative and morally questionable methods to the process.
Five experimental filmmakers premiere new shorts!
TICKETS
$15
Out There is a concept video album and live performance piece by Princess. It explores toxic masculinity and the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny.
The video’s science fiction narrative explores the power of the Divine Feminine through collaborations with JD Samson, visual artist Jennifer Myers, and the band TEEN.
Princess (Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill) is a performance art duo that explores queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory.
Alexis and Michael are platonic soul mates, unified in their bond of not quite fitting in, who have been creating conceptual performances since 1999.
Princess has performed at the Andy Warhol Museum, The Bass, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MCA San Diego, MIT List Visual Arts Center, MOCA Cleveland, New Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts and many other institutions.
Hosted by Andrew Sanford & Mikael Page
With Special Guest Angela Sharp
In 1980, a movie musical predicted the far-off future of 1994, a dystopian world of disco, biblical prophecies, and sparkling shoulder pads. In Menahem Golan's magnum opus, The Apple, the '60s way of love is pitted against the new age of corporate greed, but nothing can stop the rise of fascistic media mogul and possible Mephistopheles, Mr. Boogalow!
Join two megafans who feel that this film does yet not have the cult following it deserves, for a special screening of The Apple! If you are a fan of musicals, campy cinema, or raucous midnight screenings, then you can't afford to miss this night of costumes, laughter, and BIM marks! The night's event will feature an artist's overture, where a very special guest will interpret The Apple in ten minutes. There will be a drinking game during the screening itself, and dancing in your seat will be strongly encouraged! Afterwards, there will be time left for audience commentary and special prizes!
MNI KI WAKAN WATER IS SACRED
April 23rd | 7-8:30 PM
7 p.m.-7:15 p.m.:Welcoming & Land Acknowledgment
7:15 p.m.-7:35 p.m.: Tiana LaPointe Introduction & Vision
7:35 p.m-8:05 p.m.: Documentary
8:05 p.m.-8:15 p.m.: Song Honoring Water by Wakinyan and Thorne | Ariel and Daryl Offer Dance
8:15 p.m.-8:25 p.m.: Mni Ki Wakan Vision, Traditional Knowledge, and Future 8:25 p.m.-8:30 p.m.: LeMoine LaPointe, Sicangu Lakota
8:30 p.m.: Questions | Panel
Indigenous Documentary Filmmaker, Tiana LaPointe, Sicangu Lakota, will feature Mni Ki Wakan: Water is Sacred, a documentary-short that tells the story of global indigenous human rights movement for the future of water, originally announced at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 16th Session, 2017. Tiana invites the global community to attend, collaborate, and support.
Mni Ki Wakan means Water is Sacred, and is the guiding theme and mandate of the World Indigenous Peoples Decade of Water Summit convened by indigenous peoples, youth, NGOs, and Indigenous Peoples Organizations. Mni Ki Wakan is dedicated to elevating and unifying indigenous voices on water with the partnership and collaboration of the global community.
Featuring presentations by indigenous peoples and youth who work together to elevate a strategic water movement centered in traditional knowledge.
Tiana is also a teaching artist, and media arts instructor in Minnesota, USA.
Learn more at mnikiwakan.org
Contact: lapointetiana@gmail.com
The screening will be followed by a talk-back led by Dramaturg, Blossom Johnson.
TICKETS
$5
Six emergent filmmakers present their short, experimental works.
Connor Warnick / The Colorless Creek / 2018
The Colorless Creek depicts Suza, 53, in a therapy session reflecting upon the loss of her sight. As she speaks, we see fragmented flashbacks which tell another story on their own. Eventually, the memories, timelines, and visions each wash away into the infinite flow of the creek.
Liam Wrubel / ships riding on the seine at rouen / 2018
ships riding on the seine at rouen is a meditation on two characters and the twilight of their tenuous, romantic relationship; but this film is no more about the story than the images that tell it, or refuse to. Sometimes the characters and their narrative disappear, and in their place are magnified studies of objects, space, and found images.
Emily Greenberg / Worm Scene / 2018
Worm Scene is an elliptical musical. Lovers engage in dialogue with objects of emotional significance—a feather duster, a couch, a can of worms. These seemingly benign objects try to explain themselves. Sounds made on organ and Serge synthesizer.
Sabrina Kissack / Sweet Embrace / 2018
Sweet Embrace is an attempt to paint the remnants of spectacle in a slow moving and inconclusive world. The characters exist in a state of obsessive observation, edging towards what they are drawn to but never taking it. The event does not occur on screen, but there is a sense that it has already happened. Perhaps it has happened in the dimension we can see and perhaps in another that has overflowed into the the world of the film. The glitter, the jewels, the hair, the blood, the paint, the glove all serve as markers of the event. They are not meant to be symbols, but rather objects presented to create their own outline of a ghostly body and time. They are what has been left over to observe. The camera moves slowly in search of violence and conclusion, yet it only lands on fragments. It finds pieces of the bodies and what may have fallen out of them.
Mariana Sánchez Bueno / To My Mother / 2018
This film tells the fragmented story of a missing person through the already broken memories of those who recall the uncertain specificities of disappearance. In 1986, forced disappearances weren’t unusual in Colombia. Some were product of the guerrillas, some of the paramilitary, some the military, and some of them simply a consequence of an unapologetically violent situation that left no room for suspicion. In the decades in which violence became the norm, many disappearances were left unanswered and unquestioned. In June of 2017 I set out on the journey of uncovering the story that has haunted my family since 1986, when my grandfather went missing. As I began to look for traces of my grandfather’s story in the landscape, in the city’s architecture and in my family’s words, I realized that I naively believed I could be the one to resolve the past.
Conor Williams / WATER’S EDGE / 2018
WATER'S EDGE is a diary film of sorts that I began to form after my childhood friend Thomas O'Rourke died by suicide in 2016. This event shocked me and forced me to examine my own brushes with suicidal intent. About a year after Thomas' death, my aunt was diagnosed with brain cancer. We were not very certain just how much time she would have left. This film shows myself and other people in close proximity to me quite nakedly, at a time where everything seemed weighed down by loss and uncertainty, managing somehow to reach out and accept life's light.
TICKETS
$15 in advance/$20 at door
Written by Emmy-nominee Cheryl Davis
Directed by Melissa Skirball
Presented by Asian American Film Lab, Jennifer Betit Yen, AAFL TV, and Leviathan Lab in association with The Tank.
For two nights only, Broadway and TV/film actors will join together on the stage at The Tank for a thought-provoking and timely live and interactive theatrical performance inspired by Film Lab's national "Immigrants: We Are Them. They Are Us" (IWATTAU) Project. Written by Emmy-nominee Cheryl Davis and directed by Melissa Skirball, IWATTAU takes a hard look at immigration issues and invites the audience to ponder, dialogue and create constructive solutions to real problems. Each performance will be followed by a talkback with New York City immigration officials and the cast and crew, moderated by CBS-Interactive's Livia Areas.
TICKETS
$15 in advance/$20 at door
Written by Emmy-nominee Cheryl Davis
Directed by Melissa Skirball
Presented by Asian American Film Lab, Jennifer Betit Yen, AAFL TV, and Leviathan Lab in association with The Tank.
For two nights only, Broadway and TV/film actors will join together on the stage at The Tank for a thought-provoking and timely live and interactive theatrical performance inspired by Film Lab's national "Immigrants: We Are Them. They Are Us" (IWATTAU) Project. Written by Emmy-nominee Cheryl Davis and directed by Melissa Skirball, IWATTAU takes a hard look at immigration issues and invites the audience to ponder, dialogue and create constructive solutions to real problems. Each performance will be followed by a talkback with New York City immigration officials and the cast and crew, moderated by CBS-Interactive's Livia Areas.
Join us for a screening of Moving In Place, a documentary film featuring Puerto Ricans in their 20s and 30s who share their experiences navigating life on and off the island. They unpack the complexities of Puerto Rican identity and loyalty and the difficult decision of whether to stay or leave especially in the devastating wake of María.
The Sound And Vision International Film & Technology Festival will offer 3 screenings for viewers of all ages on Saturday, September 22nd from 10am 12:30pm, 2pm 5pm & 6pm 9pm. Each screening will showcase the top new independent films from The Sound And Vision International Film & Technology Festival. Each film screening will showcase a variety of local and international short films, animations & documentaries from acclaimed directors, writers and producers from around the world. You can purchase tickets to each of the 3 film screenings, or you can purchase a festival pass to enjoy all 3 screenings back to back, film lovers rejoice! That covers over a full day of brilliant new movies never before seen!
SCREENING #1, 10am-12:30pm includes: Chasing the Sun, Juice, City of Dreams, At Noon Fell A Darkness, Pure Energia, House, Boom -> Bust (Viscous Cycles), Conquer the World
SCREENING #2, 2pm-5pm includes:
The Disposers, News From Hell, The Keno City Music Festival, Chicken Mann VS Adolf Chickler & The Chickenazis, Off the Tracks, Spark Plug Cowboys
SCREENING #3, 6pm-9pm includes: Palindrome, Aquarium, Casualidad Rodriquez, Man In Focus, Parasol Peak, Off World Drive, Polarnet - Principles of Polarity, Up to Snuff, The Rhythm of Time, The Velvet Abstract
Dolores Haze Films presents a screening of two short films, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER starring Martha Plimpton, and BASOREXIA.
TICKETS
The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) will present the second screening in their new Staging Film series on Tuesday, December 5th at 7pm at their new home at 312 West 36th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues).
Trans Literacy Project/Panel
Join Honest Accomplice for a free screening of The Trans Literacy Project, followed by a Q &A with the creators and performers. Light refreshments provided.
The Trans Literacy Project is a free videos series providing communities with an accessible education about trans experiences, from the perspective of trans people. Addressing topics such as pronoun usage, acceptable questions and how to be an ally, the series is a valuable resource for trans people to both ease the burden of education, and create a space to explore issues facing the trans community. This project utilizes the medium of film, but is developed with the methods of devising to include the voices of many trans artists and community members. Following a successful launch in fall 2016, we will be filming and releasing future episodes including: safety, dating, identity in the workplace, and gender in the world around us.
The NYC Commission on Human Rights has recognized the level of excellence in our content and production quality and is using our videos in their trainings and resources materials
Honest Accomplice Theatres (HAT) mission is to drive individual acceptance among, and incite community dialogue about, women and trans people by exploring topics that are often silenced, seen as shameful, or portrayed as one-dimensional. To deliver on this mission, HAT devises new work that surfaces the nuanced and personal experiences of women and trans people.
This film is being shown as part of The Tank NYC 2017 PrideFest! More info here: http://thetanknyc.org/series/pride_fest_2017/
About The Show
Nearly 50 years ago, a mass murder was committed in the small Florida town of Arcadia. The victims were all children in the same family of African-American citrus pickers. Their father James Richardson was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. More than 20 years and a series of unprecedented miracles followed in order to set him free. Now, in the present day, James Richardson travels back to Florida in the hopes of receiving a glimmer of justice from a State which took his life away.
